Re: [PATCH v23 00/28] Control-flow Enforcement: Shadow Stack

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On 3/17/2021 2:18 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:

* Yu, Yu-cheng <yu-cheng.yu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 3/16/2021 2:15 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 08:10:26AM -0700, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
Control-flow Enforcement (CET) is a new Intel processor feature that blocks
return/jump-oriented programming attacks.  Details are in "Intel 64 and
IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual" [1].

CET can protect applications and the kernel.  This series enables only
application-level protection, and has three parts:

    - Shadow stack [2],
    - Indirect branch tracking [3], and
    - Selftests [4].

CET is marketing; afaict SS and IBT are 100% independent and there's no
reason what so ever to have them share any code, let alone a Kconfig
knob.

We used to have shadow stack and ibt under separate Kconfig options, but in
a few places they actually share same code path, such as the XSAVES
supervisor states and ELF header for example.  Anyways I will be happy to
make changes again if there is agreement.

I was look at:

   x86/fpu/xstate: Introduce CET MSR and XSAVES supervisor states

didn't see any IBT logic - it's essentially all shadow stack state.

Which is not surprising, forward call edge integrity protection (IBT)
requires very little state, does it?

With IBT there's no nesting, no stack - the IBT state machine
basically requires the next instruction to be and ENDBR instruction,
and that's essentially it, right?

Thanks,

	Ingo


Yes, that is it. The CET_WAIT_ENDBR bit is the status of IBT state machine. There are a few bits in MSR_IA32_U_CET controlling how IBT works, but those are not status.

Yu-cheng



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